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I went with deeper. He should sound imposing and dangerous, not humorous and/or irritating.

That's cool. But, I honestly think he could pull off all four of those characteristics, even with the higher-pitched voice, something more like MYP's comes to mind. Guess we'll have to wait and see (or hear rather.)

let it be filmation

I went with higher. Skeletor's voice from the origional Filmation cartoons has got to be one of the greatest ever. It would be nice if in the new movie, skeletor's voice was similar (or the same if possible, Like Optimus Prime in the Transformers movies) Heck I would love to see as many former voice actors as possible used. But hey, thats just my opinion!

No offense to anybody who's ever done Skeletor's voice, but I've never heard one that comes close to how I imagine it sounding. For me it would have this very unearthly quality that sends chills down the spine. I imagine it being deep and raspy and menacing. It should sound like it is coming from a tomb.

I think the move Ghost Rider came pretty close actually.

Alan Oppenheimer's voice was great for "funny villain Skeletor". And don't get me wrong, I think he could probably *do* the voice I am imagining, having heard his Batttle Cat and Man-At-Arms, especially with some technological assistance. But the voice he gave Skeletor just doesn't sound like what I always imagined him sounding like.

After re-watching the Lord of the Rings movies, I had a jones for Christopher Lee or somebody like that as the possible voice actor. Imagine a deep baritone like Lee's rumbling out "You have disappointed me for the last time, Beast Man."

As long as the guy can act. I LOVED Langella's skeletor, but to go a bit nasally (and as someone who I think would make a great skeletor) Bill Nighy, his davy jones voice was a bit higer pitched, take away the accent he used as jones but add in that pitch, he'd be great. (I also think Ralph Fienes would make an excellent lord of destruction.

As long as the guy can act. I LOVED Langella's skeletor, but to go a bit nasally (and as someone who I think would make a great skeletor) Bill Nighy, his davy jones voice was a bit higer pitched, take away the accent he used as jones but add in that pitch, he'd be great. (I also think Ralph Fienes would make an excellent lord of destruction.

You know I gotta kinda agree here, since I just watched the '87 film yesterday, and I gotta admit that by far, Langella's performance was the best part of that film. The score was actually pretty great too, very '80's Superman films-like; as was some of the concept art and costume designs used in the film (...then again, some were not so great.)

I voted for the deeper voice, but I have to admit I was using his higher/nasal voice when I was reading a He-Man story to my cousins about a week ago. Still, it was awesome because they'd never seen or heard of He-Man until that day.

Honestly though, I did love Langella's performance, but I haven't seen a performance of his that I didn't like. I saw him on Broadway back in 2002 and he was amazing. With that in mind; if you're judging on voice alone, I've always thought the best Skeletor performance was the actor for the "Power of Point Dread/Danger at Castle Grayskull." Especially when I'm reading a story with Alcala art in it, I've got that voice in my mind.

I voted for the deeper voice, but I have to admit I was using his higher/nasal voice when I was reading a He-Man story to my cousins about a week ago. Still, it was awesome because they'd never seen or heard of He-Man until that day.

Honestly though, I did love Langella's performance, but I haven't seen a performance of his that I didn't like. I saw him on Broadway back in 2002 and he was amazing. With that in mind; if you're judging on voice alone, I've always thought the best Skeletor performance was the actor for the "Power of Point Dread/Danger at Castle Grayskull." Especially when I'm reading a story with Alcala art in it, I've got that voice in my mind.

I don't ever recall hearing that. Do you know of anywhere on the net I could find it to give it a listen?

the high pitched thing works in the context of the cartoon. although, in 200x, keldor did not look at all like he would have a high pitched voice. frank langella set the precedence for how skeletor's voice can be done in a normal way. with a bit of cadence maybe, but not full blown high pitched or nasally. i don't think the actor should go that route, it would be unnecessarily silly.